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Constable Michael Pegg succumbed as the result of complications from a training accident he was involved in on November 12th, 2013. Constable Pegg was at the agency’s training facility in Vaughan when he broke his leg. He underwent surgery for

Constable John Zivcic succumbed to injuries sustained two days earlier when he was involved in a vehicle crash at the intersection of Bloor Street West and Neilson Drive while responding to a call. After the initial collision, his vehicle struck

It appears the sympathy I expressed in the opening paragraph of my December 24th article for the husband of murdered Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Lynn Sebena was misplaced. A husband is grieving the senseless loss of his wife this very

A husband is grieving the senseless loss of his wife this very minute. Instead of preparing Christmas Eve dinner for his bride, Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Lynn Sebena’s husband must now prepare for a funeral instead. I can’t even

San Diego Police Department Officer Jeremy Henwood was, if he can be judged by his last recorded act, a good and decent man. His murderer seems all the more heinous simply because we know what that last recorded act was.

It’s tragic when any police officer dies, even if it is from the scourge of the 20th century, cancer. It’s even more tragic when another police officer dies trying to make that officer’s funeral procession safe for everyone involved. That’s

A 21-year-old man was wounded and arrested after he first disarmed and murdered Rainier Oregon Police Chief Ralph Painter. The scene? a car audio store in a mall. Painter had responded to the burglary call. Early reports say a struggle

This case sucks. I mean it really sucks. Some slimebag decided New Year’s Day is a good day to shoot up his neighbour’s trailer. The neighbour called the police. Go figure. That’s where it gets really bad, really fast. Deputy

Patrick Sirois, a Nolanville, Texas reserve officer and full-time Fort Hood civilian police officer, was headed to Wagoner, Oklahoma to be with his family for Thanksgiving when tragedy struck. Lt. George Brown said, “He (Sirois) was in his own private